Relates to the inspection of meters and other apparatus used for regulating and supplying gas or electricity by the division of weights and measures

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Relates to the inspection of meters and other apparatus used for regulating and supplying gas or electricity by the division of weights and measures

Relates to the inspection of meters and other apparatus used for regulating and supplying gas or electricity by the division of weights and measures Directs the division of weights and measures to inspect meters and other apparatus used for regulating and supplying gas or electricity to verify that such apparatus are properly maintained and calibrated.

What This Bill Does

• Relates to the inspection of meters and other apparatus used for regulating and supplying gas or electricity by the division of weights and measures Directs the division of weights and measures to inspect meters and other apparatus used for regulating and supplying gas or electricity to verify that such apparatus are properly maintained and calibrated.

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Official Summary Text

Relates to the inspection of meters and other apparatus used for regulating and supplying gas or electricity by the division of weights and measures
Directs the division of weights and measures to inspect meters and other apparatus used for regulating and supplying gas or electricity to verify that such apparatus are properly maintained and calibrated.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 1, 2026
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
          inspection of gas and electricity meters

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 179 of the agriculture and markets law  is  amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 21 to read as follows:
     3    21.  INSPECT AND TEST, EITHER PERSONALLY OR THROUGH AUTHORIZED AGENTS,
     4  AS OFTEN AS THE COMMISSIONER DEEMS NECESSARY, BUT NO LESS THAN ANNUALLY,
     5  METERS AND OTHER APPARATUS USED FOR REGULATING, SUPPLYING AND/OR  ASCER-
     6  TAINING  THE  QUANTITY OF GAS OR ELECTRICITY SUPPLIED TO RESIDENTIAL AND
     7  COMMERCIAL UTILITY CUSTOMERS TO VERIFY THAT SUCH APPARATUS ARE  PROPERLY
     8  MAINTAINED AND CALIBRATED, AND TO KEEP A RECORD OF THE SAME.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14741-01-6